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The heavily-promoted lightweight/welterweight prospect Sage Northcutt is apparently now a free-agent after Dana White confirmed that he will not be offering the 22-year-old a new contract. Northcutt is currently riding a three-fight win-streak, with his most recent victory coming against Zak Ottow at UFC Boise but despite his young age and clear potential, it seems as though the UFC aren’t willing …

Fans of mixed martial arts have notoriously short memories, so let’s not sit here and pretend that the story of Francis Ngannou has already been told to its conclusion. One fight can change everything. The day was Friday, the ninth of November, and Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone was gearing up to take on a young and hungry lion in the form …

Dana White believes that UFC light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier has more fights left in the tank than he is letting on. The original plan was (and presumably still is) that the champ will hang up his gloves for good and retire just prior to his 40th birthday in March. And in a way, it would be a fitting …

Ben Askren is under no impressions about the reason why he is facing Robbie Lawler in his UFC debut next January at UFC 233. Dana White and Askren have a long and turbulent history, something that made it an even greater shock when the promotion decided to finally sign the undefeated wrestler last month. The question of whether he would …

The UFC are reportedly planning on scrapping their flyweight division ahead of champion Henry Cejudo’s move up to bantamweight to challenge TJ Dillashaw for the title. FloCombat reported first that the promotion are planning on following up the exit of the division’s most successful champion by axing the weight-class from their roster. According to the same reports, not all of the current …

Dana White addressed the media following UFC 230 last night and explained how he spoke to Conor McGregor for an hour last week. We’re just under a month removed from the unforgettable UFC 229. Of course, the melee that followed the night’s main-event is still fresh in the memory but as time goes on, we’re slowly focussing more on the …

Dana White spoke about DC’s suitability for the role of UFC president during his post-fight press conference and when Cormier took to the stage, he responded. It’s a suggestion that has come out of nowhere but when Dana was asked by a member of the media for his thoughts, he expressed enthusiasm for the dual-weight world champion’s chances. “Oh definitely. …

The legendary former pound-for-pound number one reflected on his time in the UFC while expressing how excited he is for the new challenges that await him in his new home. The trade that saw Demetrious Johnson make the move over to ONE Championship in Asia is one that many are pointing to as a potentially game-changing breakdown of the barriers that …

Demetrious Johnson has revealed exactly why he decided to leave the UFC in favour of a move to Asian MMA promotion ONE Championship. Speaking to the media on Sunday night via conference call, Johnson explained how his views on fight-promotion in the US contributed to his decision to leave the world’s biggest MMA organisation. “I was always never the biggest …

The UFC’s newest signing has taken to Twitter to ask his new boss to unblock him on the social media platform now that he has signed for the UFC. Those who aren’t fully aware of who Ben Askren is might be surprised to find out that he and UFC president Dana White have had a long and turbulent history. Askren spoke to …

Ben Askren looks set to sign for the UFC and with that, an entire career’s worth of questions will be answered as he finally competes against the very best in the game in the world’s premier MMA promotion. If you aren’t aware of Askren before seeing yesterday’s reports linking him to an unprecedented swap deal that would see him join the UFC, …

We’re very close to potentially witnessing a super-fight unlike anything the sport has ever seen, the third showdown between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones. In June, just over a week before Daniel Cormier’s UFC 226 super-fight against the heavyweight champion of the world Stipe Miocic, I wrote a piece that looked at the public’s perception of DC and his rival Jon Jones. …

Dana White has confirmed that the fight-fan within him believes that Tony Ferguson deserves the next crack at the lightweight title. It’s hard to know exactly how to view the lightweight title picture at the moment. Out of all of the UFC’s divisions, its belt has been in perhaps the most consistent state of confusion in recent years. With Khabib …

UFC president Dana White has played down reports a rift between the promotion and their lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov after the Russian’s rather public ultimatum last week. Khabib certainly stirred up something of a storm within the MMA community when he made it very clear that he would walk away from his contract if his sparring partner Zubaira Tukhugov or …

Nate Diaz just posted a hilariously confusing tweet in the direction of UFC president Dana White as his fellow lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov’s future remains unclear. Nate just shook up the world with this one! Well, not really. But for what it’s worth, the man who handed the former champion Conor McGregor a submission loss at UFC 196 certainly grabbed some attention …